Plugin: Home Screen Companion

[crusher11 1288]

On 9/4/2026 at 2:20 AM, crusher11 said:

I have a rule set up to tag all the movies in my James Bond collection. It's tagged everything except the Connery entries; no idea why that would be?

Scratch that, user error.

[Mister_U 8]

Hi team,

First of all, thank you so much for this module—it looks very promising!

 

No matter how much I try, I can't figure out how to get it to generate a dynamic list that randomly selects 50 movies or TV shows from the local database to promote the available content.

 

Could you please help me out?

[STR8 76]

I'm far from an expert but I will try to help @Mister_Udid you?

1. In the HSC go to Top List

2. Create New

3. Choose how to create the list Manual or Tags (I did Tags) you will see a list and how many movies are included in the individual tag list shown

4. Select a tag / tag list

5. Select users that will have access to the list

6. Enter 50 in Max items and save it will say if it was created and successful 

7. Go to user settings, home screen under display and you should see your Top List at the very bottom of the list of your Home Sections which will show on the actual Emby home page all the way at the bottom until moved   

 

[sh0rty 773]

@soderlundThanks for this great plugin I waited so long to use it finally. I'm really late to the party with this great plugin since main server is on stable and finally updated to a supported version.

Few questions just to make clear I understand this right. 
1. I added a MDBlist as external list under Source in Tag & Collection.
2. Then I added a Tag Name for the items out of this list in my library.
3. Then I went into Top-Lists and added a list with the source by Tag and chose the tag I set up in point 2.
4. At the end I ran a full sync.
5. Library is created and shown as list with top list badge on homecreen of the selected users.

Now to the questions:
1. Is this the correct way or did I overcomplicate something here?
2. Not all thumbs have the top list badge. I ran several runs and recreated the list multiple times, there are always images with no top list badge.


3. Is it usual behaviour that all items in this Companion created list do show multiversion for the video file or is there a setting I'm missing?

Edited yesterday at 05:31 PM by sh0rty

[Mister_U 8]

15 hours ago, STR8 said:

I'm far from an expert but I will try to help @Mister_Udid you?

1. In the HSC go to Top List

2. Create New

3. Choose how to create the list Manual or Tags (I did Tags) you will see a list and how many movies are included in the individual tag list shown

4. Select a tag / tag list

5. Select users that will have access to the list

6. Enter 50 in Max items and save it will say if it was created and successful 

7. Go to user settings, home screen under display and you should see your Top List at the very bottom of the list of your Home Sections which will show on the actual Emby home page all the way at the bottom until moved   

 

Thanks for the feedback.
But I'd like something random that refreshes every 7 days, for example.

[seanbuff 1409]

2 minutes ago, Mister_U said:

Thanks for the feedback.
But I'd like something random that refreshes every 7 days, for example.

You can achieve that by creating a 'Dynamic Media' home screen section, selecting your media type, choosing Genre or Tags and a sort order of 'Random'

You cannot however choose how often it randomizes. The row will randomize your selection every time the home screen is refreshed.

[Moondoggie28 2]

Quick question regarding this plugin - does this automatically remove all of the "Latest Added" of the moves and TV shows that is set to the default for Emby? If so, is there a way to create a list for newly added?